Arts Centre Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium

When American instrument manufacturer Leo Fender launched the first mass-produced electric guitar in 1950 this did not merely mark a technical innovation – it was the beginning of a cultural revolution. For the next half century, the electric guitar remained the genre’s most dominant instrument – and the guitarist its greatest, most virtuosic hero. This film portrays three guitarists from three different generations, each of whom has had a decisive influence on the sound of rock music: Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White. One of the film’s highlights is the moment when all three guitarists come together in a studio, plug in their amps and let rip. Nonetheless, each of them also has the opportunity to tell the story of their own personal musical rebellion. The film travels to the ‘historical’ sites of pop music: to Headley Grange, the former workhouse in East Hampshire where “Stairway to Heaven” was composed; to an eerie looking farmhouse in Tennessee where Jack White creates his modern blues; and to Dublin, where The Edge actually manages to unearth the original four-track recording of “Where the Streets Have No Name”.

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